chven.us is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
@i first, I regret it and it was a mistake. I should have kept #snac2 instead of #Mastodon (and I wrote it already several times). If you run a single user instance - don’t use Mastodon. I was one of the early adaptors of snac and also contributed to the project but back in that time, the API was very limited and several clients didn’t work or were limited in display posts (as in a kind of count). The current releases are much better and work great - especially for single user instances and @grunfink is doing an absolutely great job (thank you very much for your work!).
I’m planning to switch back to snac (it finally can do “move” actions where you’re not locked-in anymore) but switching the instance on the same domain means a three-way movement to not break the users crypto keys. There’s also a self destroy possibility, but that mostly only works on Mastodon. Snac cannot interprete this (but according to grunfink the keys are resourced in a few days, so it shouldn’t be a problem) but not quite sure about other solutions like GTS etc. So, the smoothest way is to migrate to a tmp instance on another domain and the create an instance on this domain and move back again. If I have time, I’ll do so.